Knight Fight
Has anyone watched the season of Knight Fight that History channel produced this year? The season ended just a few weeks ago.
I found it a very cool watch. The show is about professional armored combatants wearing different styles of heavy armor and they fight in a gladitorial style arena with blunted weapons with some rules thrown in for safety. Each episode starts with 6 "Knights" and over the course of an hour they are whittled down to an event champion. Arms and armor from different periods of world history were used and the knights had to fight using weapons chosen by the panel of judges in each "Heat". The season ends with the episode champions fighting each other for the title of Knight Fight Champion.
I thought it was really cool to see what it is actually like to see real human beings battling in heavy armor. These guys get tired fast carrying around all that weight and many of the weapons that we use in DnD style games would be almost useless vs a warrior wearing heavy armor like they wear. A weapon like a rapier would be next to useless. The guys with short sword and buckler type weapons were seriously over matched by the heavier weapon users.
I'll stop there with any spoiler stuff but was wondering if anyone else out there watched it and learned some of the realism involved in armored combat and what it really looks like?
I found it a very cool watch. The show is about professional armored combatants wearing different styles of heavy armor and they fight in a gladitorial style arena with blunted weapons with some rules thrown in for safety. Each episode starts with 6 "Knights" and over the course of an hour they are whittled down to an event champion. Arms and armor from different periods of world history were used and the knights had to fight using weapons chosen by the panel of judges in each "Heat". The season ends with the episode champions fighting each other for the title of Knight Fight Champion.
I thought it was really cool to see what it is actually like to see real human beings battling in heavy armor. These guys get tired fast carrying around all that weight and many of the weapons that we use in DnD style games would be almost useless vs a warrior wearing heavy armor like they wear. A weapon like a rapier would be next to useless. The guys with short sword and buckler type weapons were seriously over matched by the heavier weapon users.
I'll stop there with any spoiler stuff but was wondering if anyone else out there watched it and learned some of the realism involved in armored combat and what it really looks like?